One of the main reasons asylum seekers can be forced into exploitation, and that's what this talk of "informal work" is for the most part, is because asylum allowances are so low and they are denied the right to work. It isn't a "pull factor" for people seeking safety #r4today
Home Office is standing against cross party support for providing asylum seekers with the right to work claiming it would be a "pull factor", despite other countries allowing them to do so already. It deliberately keeps asylum allowances ridiculously low for the same reason.
You can't force people to live in poverty and then have the gall to claim that when they are forced into exploitation due to the very poverty you have caused that it is still a "pull factor". No-one is crossing the channel for the fun of being exploited.
If you want to stop asylum seekers working in the oh so disingenuously labelled "informal economy", then you don't do it by stopping people seeking asylum. You do it by increasing asylum allowances to a genuinely liveable amount and providing them with the right to work.
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